says it sounds like you have a black agenda like you are not for all of america. it is not that i have a black agenda but i wake up every morning excited to be a black woman. i found it empowering and befitting i chose to be part of miss black usa portion and now i am representing the organization. >> reporter: when you hear the other pageants and national pageants may have to take a year off and put aside school and to be miss usa or whatever but as miss black america people would be sad to know you are a schoolteacher and you may have to give up your job but you say no. >> i'm not leaving my babies, oh, no. >> where will you be in the fall? >> in the fall i will be at my high school in southeast. >> what's your subject. >> english and creative writing. i'm a graduate of howard university, journalism and african-american studies minor. without any education this will not matter. i'm not going to give up my job at all. >> tell us what is making news in the afro this week besides this story. >> the major story this past evening, former congressman william jefferson